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paleoanthropology
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The study of early humans |
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hominid
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The common name for humans and their ancestors |
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bipedalism
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walking upright on two legs |
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Lucy
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The world’s most famous early human ancestor |
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Donald Johanson
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One of the most accomplished scholars of human origins, discovered Lucy. |
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Fossil
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The remains of living things |
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Artifact
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The remains of things that were made |
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Australopithecine
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Human-like hominids (Lucy) Could stand up and walk on 2 legs (bipedal) difference between early man and apes are the hands |
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Homo habilis
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“Handy man” 1st true humans 1st tool maker lived in Africa Taller, and had a larger brain |
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Homo erectus
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“Upright man” Made and =controlled fired 1st hunters traveled over land bridges from Africa to begin to populate the world, about 1 million years ago |
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Homo sapiens
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“Wise Man” and Neandertals Neanderthals buried their dead with ceremony Stone-tipped spears, bone needles, bone fish hooks sewed their clothes from animal skins, warm boots |
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Homo sapiens sapiens
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“Moderns” and Cro-Magnon Cave Paintings. Bow and arrows, well constructed huts with central hearths for fires. used honey to sweeten food End of the last Ice Age about 10,000 years ago |
